Fences enclose sweaty trees
of palms, apricots and figs,
while dried-up roses suffer
heat, next to stubborn hortensia
striving, to blossom despite
anomalous murderous drought.
An infant baobab travelled
all the way from Dakar to be
planted in a pot … CONTINUE READING »
The show
Dynamically unveiling an expanding carpet
Of hydrogen particles coalescing to spring
Stars to grow, spin and sparkle, explode
In blinding invisible light, thrusting golden
Debris forming rocky spheres, aligning
To revolve finding balance finely tuning
And allow life to burst … CONTINUE READING »
Heat
When hypnotised eyes only
search for signs in depths of dilated
pupils of he who would be able
to drive you blind;
When courage overtakes you
unafraid and tempted enveloped
by veils of overwhelming heat
craving for inebriated contact;
When … CONTINUE READING »
Equal measure
As humankind evolves in time
What used to be primitive tribes
Guarding territory, people, progeny
And food, have mutated into
Governments flaunting flags and political
Agendas to fulfil, within four years,
Drafted on greed, implemented
By concocting fear.
Rulers hence … CONTINUE READING »
Robot Genesis 126
If only I had a brain I would wander
The lands, discover my surroundings,
Emulate nature to my benefit, replicate
The mastery of lightning, sparkle
Fires to keep warm.
Draw in caves to communicate, invent
Words and a language, grasp … CONTINUE READING »
Met him in a bar
First glance caught by whiteness
Of teeth unfolded by laughter, of he
Who was surrounded, in conversation
With curious people hanging,
On every word of his brightness.
Deflecting my attention I ordered
A Ti’ Punch. As I waited eyes compelled,… CONTINUE READING »
Universe does not allow perfection
When the lonely nutshell decided to blow,
Out of itself malleable creative energy
For space to unfold into endless expansion
Begin the infinite story of a new-born Universe,
It did not cater for symmetry, nor for perfection.
Sparkles and outbursts … CONTINUE READING »
Wavelengths of light
Intangible perception of reflecting light,
Electromagnetic radiation stimulating
Mammalian photoreceptors, six million
Cone cells densely packed, in a point three
Millimetres area known, as the fovea centralis
Residing at the core, of colour-grasping retinas.
Red, green and blue, bases of … CONTINUE READING »
The Perseids
Icy clusters of rocks and dust, leftovers
Of extra matter scattered around a star.
Following the orbit guiding a perpetual run,
For seeing creatures to gaze at midnight skies
In search of glistening shooting lights.
Comets, so named by the … CONTINUE READING »
Primitive ancestors
In a Universe fourteen billion years old, a galaxy
Amongst two trillion others moves, through space
At two point one million kilometres per hour, pulled
By a gravitational focal point once named, the Great
Attractor and now known, to be … CONTINUE READING »